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Opera in one act by Richard Strauss , to a libretto by Clemens Krauss.
Live from the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. (soprano) (mezzo) (tenor) (bantone) (bantone) (tenor) (soprano)(tenor) (bass)
Royal Opera House Orchestra conductor Jeffrey Tate Part One
8.55 Ivan Hewett on the fraught relationship between words and music.
9.20 Part Two

Contributors

Unknown:
Richard Strauss
Unknown:
Clemens Krauss.
Conductor:
Jeffrey Tate
Unknown:
Ivan Hewett
Countess:
Kiri Te Kanawa
Clairon, an actress:
Anne Howells
Flamand, a musician:
David Rendall
Olivier, a poet:
Willlam Shimell
Count, the Countess's brother:
Thomas Allen
La Roche, director of a theatre:
Franz-Ferdinand Nentwig
Monsieur Taupe:
John Dobson
Italian Singers::
I Lillian Watson
Italian Singers::
Bonaventura Bottone
Major Domo:
Roderick Earle
Source: Radio Times

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Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

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